Evolving Hamlet

Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy and the Ethics of Natural Selection

A. Fletcher (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2011 | 1st ed. 2011
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-29397-1 (ISBN)

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Using Hamlet and a number of other popular and influential seventeenth-century tragedies as case-studies, this book shows how aesthetic experience can help organize the biological functions of our brains into adaptive social networks.

ANGUS FLETCHER Assistant Professor of Critical Studies at UCLA, USA.

Introduction: The Descent of Ethics Faustus, Macbeth , and The Riddle of Tomorrow Partial Belief in Julius Caesar and Hamlet Othello and the Subject of Ocular Proof The Indian Emperor and the Reason of New World Conflict Cartesian Pity and the New Shakespeare King Lear and the Endurance of Tragedy The Progress of Ethics

Erscheinungsdatum	10.08.2016
Reihe/Serie	Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance
Zusatzinfo	XVI, 192 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Hamlet • King Lear • Macbeth • Tragedy • William Shakespeare
ISBN-10	1-349-29397-0 / 1349293970
ISBN-13	978-1-349-29397-1 / 9781349293971
Zustand	Neuware